brickyard

[brik-yahrd]

noun

a place where bricks are made, stored, or sold.

Origin of brickyard

An Americanism dating back to 1725–35; brick + yard²

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Examples from the Web for brickyard

Historical Examples of brickyard

Then some people got hold of me and pulled me out and took me over to a brickyard.
The Johnstown Horror
James Herbert Walker
Hed have to hurry if he was to get to that brickyard in seventeen minutes!
Full-Back Foster
Ralph Henry Barbour
Fix it up for the brickyard at—at what time do you say, Foster?
Full-Back Foster
Ralph Henry Barbour
The bricks were all made in the school's brickyard, and laid by the students.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899
Various
I know why it is called the Brick Bridge—because the brickyard is opposite——!
A Blue Devil of France
G. P. Capart

British Dictionary definitions for brickyard

brickyard

noun

a place in which bricks are made, stored, or sold

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